Screen Australia and Ambience Entertainment are thrilled to announce the commencement of production on feature film, Overture. Written and directed by the award-winning Bruce Beresford, Overture is a powerful, funny and moving family story which will resonate with contemporary audiences. Ambience Entertainment…
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Australian Premiere of Apple Original Films’ Causeway as Opening Night Film for Veterans Film Festival
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Apple Original Films’ Causeway, starring and produced by Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, will have its Australian Premiere as the opening night film for the Veterans Film Festival in Sydney on November 3 in the presence of Festival Patrons, their Excellencies, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and…
Breaker Morant
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Directed by Bruce Beresford Staring Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown & John Waters Rating PG Score 6/6 Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. With the anniversary 118th of the executions of Lieutenants Peter Handcock and Harry “Breaker”…
Barry McKenzie Holds his Own
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Director Bruce Beresford Starring Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Donald Pleasence Rated M Score 6/6 Barry McKenzie’s Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his…
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
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Director Bruce Beresford Starring Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Spike Milligan Rated M Score 5/6 Young Australian, Barry McKenzie, travels to England with his Aunt Edna after his father dies and a request is revealed in his will. Barry McKenzie was originally a character created by Barry Humphries for a cartoon strip in Private Eye. It…
NFSA Digitally Restores Bruce Beresford’s Black Robe
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Bruce Beresford’s 1991 film Black Robe, the first feature film co-produced by Australia and Canada, has been digitally restored by the National Film and Sound Archive’s NFSA Restores program. The new digital print will premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival on 17 August, followed by an In conversation session with Mr Beresford on the 18th.…
The Club
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Directed Bruce Beresford Starring Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson Rated M Score 6/6 Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club. For those of you who might not know The Club was based on a play of the same name from 1977 written by Australian playwright David…
Production Designer Felicity Abbott Interview
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A big thank you to Production Designer Felicity Abbott for taking the time to answer some questions. Felicity recently worked on Upgrade which was directed by Leigh Whannell and is scheduled for release in Australia on June 14th and Ladies in Black directed by Bruce Beresford which is scheduled for release in Australia in October.…